# Pastebin baIViDwr
<MalyceGraves> It is a big issue for lots of authors
17:16 You are hardly alone in it. Hell, I fuck it up myself/
17:16 Usually when I'm correcting the stuff I work on with Aki.
17:17 He mostly writes in a sloppy present passive and it's a pain to convert to past active. I miss shit a lot when I do that
17:17 It helps to read it out loud and make note of where you are stumbling
17:17 and reading it out loud TO someone
17:17 If you just read it out loud to yourself, you will start to mumble and skip stuff
17:18 Make sense?
17:19 < > Yes, but its hard to read it out to someone when their not interested in it. Or if its a super quiet place like a library (I do my work during college hours in the library when I have the chance)
17:20 <MalyceGraves> Oh yeah, I totally understand that.
17:20 What might help is to look at something when you're reading it. Mouth the words, as if you're reading it to an empty chair
17:21 If it helps, picture someone like me sitting in that chair. Or an english professor. 
17:23 < > I... think I get what you mean?
17:24 <MalyceGraves> You need to actively engage to turn off the portion of your brain that gets blind to stuff
17:24 Because your mind KNOWS what you're trying to say
17:25 But when you actively engage a different portion of your brain to read aloud to someone, it stumbles over translating what is in your mind vs what is on the page
17:25 Actively engaging this way will help a whole lot.
17:26 This is what I mean when I constantly yammer on about reading shit aloud.